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I'm looking at a git repo for a jquery plugin. I want to make a few changes for use in my own project, but when I opened up the repo it had a structure I've never seen before. I'm not sure which files to use / copy into my own project.
There is a "dist" and a "src" folder. What purpose do these serve? Is this something specific for gruntjs or maybe jquery plugins?
The git repo I'm curious about: https://github.com/ducksboard/gridster.js
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SRC is the folder, where your source code exists, dist is the binaries that get generated of these source code.
The src stands for source. The /src folder comprises of the raw non-minified code. The /src folder is used to store the file with the primary purpose of reading (and/or editing) the code. The /src folder contains all the sources, i.e. the code which is required to be manipulated before it can be used.
The shortform dist stands for distributable and refers to a directory where files will be stored that can be directly used by others without the need to compile or minify the source code that is being reused.
The dist/ folder includes everything listed in the precompiled download section above. The docs/ folder includes the source code for our documentation, and examples/ of Bootstrap usage. Beyond that, any other included file provides support for packages, license information, and development.
src/ stands for source, and is the raw code before minification or concatenation or some other compilation - used to read/edit the code.
dist/ stands for distribution, and is the minified/concatenated version - actually used on production sites.
This is a common task that is done for assets on the web to make them smaller.
You can see an example here: http://blog.kevinchisholm.com/javascript/node-js/javascript-concatenation-and-minification-with-the-grunt-js-task-runer/
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